I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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